Hearing that they're integrating with Lightning, I just thought it would be so much more appropriate to call it that. "Thunder and Lightning" makes sense, but "Thunderbird and Lightning" sounds like fried chicken.
If you like those features, you should try Apple Mail. It's cleverly disguised as an anti-Outlook mail client so you can sit there and say, "Ha, I'm better than all those Microsoft users because I'm using something that looks different." Then they added/improved on Outlook features like these:
- Automatic mail setup so that you can get phished onto someone else's email server.
- Complete program lockup so you can download your 1k+ new webmaster/postmaster email messages at a horribly slow pace.
The list the RIAA uses for ISP takedown notices is about 700 currently popular songs that are updated based on the charts, so not liking the bottom 40 could save you.
I don't know about you, but this looks like a spruced up version of Johnny Chung Lee's head tracking experiment with a guy pretending to motion-sync with the object moving on the screen. I don't think it can truly be validated without a lot of first-hand witnesses.
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At least it wasn't a blatant/vertisement, but I have to agree, this was useless and maybe obvious. My impression makes me believe this is no more than a rehash of the installation guide and some first-hand suggestion. It sort of rings, "If you need the install guide written in easier to follow English, this guide is highly recommended."
I went with Mr. Neal because all the other options are products of our society. You can try to suppress society, but it will only rise up against you. You can however take someone out of society and effectively martyr them. Their voice may remain, but their influence diminished. Everything else will reappear in a different form possibly greater than its predecessor. Even taking someone out of society may have little effect on their cause if their cause is strong enough.
Why do MMOs get exclusive rights to the "PvP" concept? I've got this chess board and it has one of the best time-tested PvP systems ever. Turn-based all the way!
So now that Steve Yegge ported Rails to Javascript, is Microsoft trying to act like the henchman who attempts to please the master by trying to axe Javascript in favor of the master's love for Ruby in spite the fact that it was a bad idea to begin with?
Seriously, I don't know what version of the Star Wars saga you've been watching, but I can see the *cough* slight resemblance *cough* between the two. They're both blue/white robots. with one eye and the ability to project images, albeit not the same kind of projection.
I can see it now, "IBM struck with class-action lawsuit after several incidents of computers being left out in the cold of winter cause the processors to explode due to the natural properties of water expanding into ice. Other incidents with water contamination in liquid nitrogen-cooled 3-D processors have resulted in a similar lawsuit."
Sure, NexTel is great in the manufacturing sector, but I have to tell you, when they opened up "Push to Talk" to the regular consumer market, they put a knife in their foot. I can't stand that lame blip every time someone Mr. Doe has to ask Mrs. Doe what type of flour to buy at the grocery store.
How about we start framing security cameras and other IP-enabled devices. This brings new meaning to automated homes. "I swear officer, it was my toaster oven that was downloading those mp3s."
I agree it seems illegal. It sounds just like the music industry where we find poor artists because the record companies are knifing both sides of the relationship (customer and artist). For one, you're injecting ads to your customers who pay you in the first place. I can see the reason if you are trying to save the customer money by getting sponsors to pay the bills. However, you're possibly replacing ads placed there by content providers who may rely on that ad revenue to put food on their family's plates. That's downright stealing.
There's enough stealing going on from the customer perspective when they block ads to prevent outages/overcharges when they reach their limit; People coast down hills in neutral to stretch their mileage/dollar, so why wouldn't the same principle apply to bandwidth/dollar? So having the ISPs stealing ad revenue is more than double the trouble since fewer people know/care to block ads anyway.
Are ISPs going in the same direction as the media industry and the lovely RIAA?
I'm hesitant to give out my service provider to anyone, but I'll tell you you can find some decent server prices when you go with self-managed linux servers. The big kicker is whether they offer serial console access in case you screw something up (e.g. blocking all network traffic on your firewall). My provider's prices went up after they had an influx of subscribers, but they went back down after they expanded their server center.
If it takes 100 monkeys some finite amount of time to write the complete works of Shakespeare, then it can easily be said that 1000 monkeys can rewrite a language test application, clearly a simpler task, within a year.
State/Government contractors? Why follow the write-once-use-anywhere model when you can guarantee job security by writing it only for IE and later get a new contract to rewrite it for Firefox and so on and so forth?
[I] find it weird that such a statement can be rated "Insightful".
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that, but then again everyone was grumpy Monday and rated a lot of stuff as trolls.
ISP's generally have lots of unused OUTGOING bandwidth and can sell it cheap because it is cosing them (incrementally) nothing. On the other hand, INCOMING bandwidth costs them dearly.
Isn't it more likely the case that their outgoing cost is low because outgoing bandwidth usage is low anyway? We spend less time sending requests/files, and more time receiving responses/files. Obviously the incoming bandwidth is going to cost more just due to client behavior. If all users suddenly switched behavior, the opposite would be true. So the bandwidth cost per client should be the same or less than a Host provider's cost per client.
If a host provider can offer 1.2TB/month as a lump sum of up and down, an ISP should be able to offer similar service offset only by infrastructure repair/maintenance and cost recovery. We'd have to look deeper into the difference in hardware longevity and cost to see how much more an ISP should charge for baseline infrastructure.
I'm paying $90/month for a dedicated server, 24/7 amazing tech support and 1.2TB bandwidth per month. How is $60/month for no dedicated server, crappy tech support and 40GB/month (0.04TB) any where near a reasonable offer?
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So, Bill, what are we going to do tonight?
Same thing we do every night, Stevie. Try to take over the world.
Hearing that they're integrating with Lightning, I just thought it would be so much more appropriate to call it that. "Thunder and Lightning" makes sense, but "Thunderbird and Lightning" sounds like fried chicken.
If you like those features, you should try Apple Mail. It's cleverly disguised as an anti-Outlook mail client so you can sit there and say, "Ha, I'm better than all those Microsoft users because I'm using something that looks different." Then they added/improved on Outlook features like these:
- Automatic mail setup so that you can get phished onto someone else's email server.
- Complete program lockup so you can download your 1k+ new webmaster/postmaster email messages at a horribly slow pace.
I don't know about you, but this looks like a spruced up version of Johnny Chung Lee's head tracking experiment with a guy pretending to motion-sync with the object moving on the screen. I don't think it can truly be validated without a lot of first-hand witnesses.
At least it wasn't a blatant /vertisement, but I have to agree, this was useless and maybe obvious. My impression makes me believe this is no more than a rehash of the installation guide and some first-hand suggestion. It sort of rings, "If you need the install guide written in easier to follow English, this guide is highly recommended."
I went with Mr. Neal because all the other options are products of our society. You can try to suppress society, but it will only rise up against you. You can however take someone out of society and effectively martyr them. Their voice may remain, but their influence diminished. Everything else will reappear in a different form possibly greater than its predecessor. Even taking someone out of society may have little effect on their cause if their cause is strong enough.
Why do MMOs get exclusive rights to the "PvP" concept? I've got this chess board and it has one of the best time-tested PvP systems ever. Turn-based all the way!
Yeah, that will get you part way. Anyone can figure it out if they have the tools.
So now that Steve Yegge ported Rails to Javascript, is Microsoft trying to act like the henchman who attempts to please the master by trying to axe Javascript in favor of the master's love for Ruby in spite the fact that it was a bad idea to begin with?
"Condoms" is Insightful? Wait, what is a field engineer again?
Seriously, I don't know what version of the Star Wars saga you've been watching, but I can see the *cough* slight resemblance *cough* between the two. They're both blue/white robots. with one eye and the ability to project images, albeit not the same kind of projection.
I can see it now, "IBM struck with class-action lawsuit after several incidents of computers being left out in the cold of winter cause the processors to explode due to the natural properties of water expanding into ice. Other incidents with water contamination in liquid nitrogen-cooled 3-D processors have resulted in a similar lawsuit."
Sure, NexTel is great in the manufacturing sector, but I have to tell you, when they opened up "Push to Talk" to the regular consumer market, they put a knife in their foot. I can't stand that lame blip every time someone Mr. Doe has to ask Mrs. Doe what type of flour to buy at the grocery store.
I dunno, I hear those fax signatures can be forged. You're gonna have to put the washing machine in spin cycle and have a waffle iron notarize it.
After conquering standard Lego adventures, Star Wars sagas and the like, now Lego leaps in to correct their racial stereo types in the gaming world.
How about we start framing security cameras and other IP-enabled devices. This brings new meaning to automated homes. "I swear officer, it was my toaster oven that was downloading those mp3s."
Maybe I've just been hiding under a dictator-like manager.
I agree it seems illegal. It sounds just like the music industry where we find poor artists because the record companies are knifing both sides of the relationship (customer and artist). For one, you're injecting ads to your customers who pay you in the first place. I can see the reason if you are trying to save the customer money by getting sponsors to pay the bills. However, you're possibly replacing ads placed there by content providers who may rely on that ad revenue to put food on their family's plates. That's downright stealing.
There's enough stealing going on from the customer perspective when they block ads to prevent outages/overcharges when they reach their limit; People coast down hills in neutral to stretch their mileage/dollar, so why wouldn't the same principle apply to bandwidth/dollar? So having the ISPs stealing ad revenue is more than double the trouble since fewer people know/care to block ads anyway.
Are ISPs going in the same direction as the media industry and the lovely RIAA?
I'm hesitant to give out my service provider to anyone, but I'll tell you you can find some decent server prices when you go with self-managed linux servers. The big kicker is whether they offer serial console access in case you screw something up (e.g. blocking all network traffic on your firewall). My provider's prices went up after they had an influx of subscribers, but they went back down after they expanded their server center.
If it takes 100 monkeys some finite amount of time to write the complete works of Shakespeare, then it can easily be said that 1000 monkeys can rewrite a language test application, clearly a simpler task, within a year.
State/Government contractors? Why follow the write-once-use-anywhere model when you can guarantee job security by writing it only for IE and later get a new contract to rewrite it for Firefox and so on and so forth?
[I] find it weird that such a statement can be rated "Insightful".
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that, but then again everyone was grumpy Monday and rated a lot of stuff as trolls.
ISP's generally have lots of unused OUTGOING bandwidth and can sell it cheap because it is cosing them (incrementally) nothing. On the other hand, INCOMING bandwidth costs them dearly.
Isn't it more likely the case that their outgoing cost is low because outgoing bandwidth usage is low anyway? We spend less time sending requests/files, and more time receiving responses/files. Obviously the incoming bandwidth is going to cost more just due to client behavior. If all users suddenly switched behavior, the opposite would be true. So the bandwidth cost per client should be the same or less than a Host provider's cost per client.
If a host provider can offer 1.2TB/month as a lump sum of up and down, an ISP should be able to offer similar service offset only by infrastructure repair/maintenance and cost recovery. We'd have to look deeper into the difference in hardware longevity and cost to see how much more an ISP should charge for baseline infrastructure.
I'm paying $90/month for a dedicated server, 24/7 amazing tech support and 1.2TB bandwidth per month. How is $60/month for no dedicated server, crappy tech support and 40GB/month (0.04TB) any where near a reasonable offer?